Articles Of Impeachment Filed Against A Governor. Could It Work?https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2021/02/01/articles-impeachment-filed-governor-work/If you scroll through your news feeds this week looking for information about impeachment proceedings, most of the results will likely deal with the impending Senate trial for Donald Trump. But that’s not the only impeachment circus rolling into town. In Kentucky, articles of impeachment have been filed against two statewide elected officials and one state legislator. One of the statewide officials is Democratic Governor Andy Beshear and the other is Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron. Additionally, state representative Robert Goforth has articles of impeachment pending after he was charged with attempting to strangle a woman. Republicans hold supermajorities in both chambers so they can generally do what they want, but it sounds as if there isn’t much of an appetite for these impeachments thus far.
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The only item that’s been mentioned thus far in terms of charges is Beshear’s executive order banning mass gatherings last year and how it was enforced against churches. Orders like that one have certainly enraged a lot of people, particularly in conservative circles and issues of First Amendment rights immediately come to mind. But the courts have generally given governors wide latitude in terms of executive mandates during a time of declared emergency conditions and that’s largely been the case during this pandemic. Also, Beshear’s order wasn’t really all that different from others that were issued around the country. If Beshear gets impeached over this, we’d probably be impeaching half of the governors in America this winter. (Not that I’m saying that would necessarily be a bad thing, mind you.)
Filed, not voted on, which may or may not happen.
